[nfbcs] Trouble with IE8

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

Ian's points are good ones.  I am required to stick with IE 8 because of work, and occasionally I get the "not responding" message under Windows 7, but IE 8 generally functions all right for me.  

I have heard that IE 10 is better than IE 9, that there were bugs in IE 9 that were not corrected until IE 10.  However, I don't think IE 10 runs under Windows XP, and I'm not even sure that IE 9 does.  I believe 
under IE 8 and Windows XP that there is a "repair" option when you find IE 8 in Add/remove programs.  I also use Microsoft Security Essentials, but occasionally I run a scan with Malwarebytes as well, and 
you might do that as well.  However, I am also of the opinion that you could be dealing with network instability.  Do you routinely stream audio, and if so, is it constant?  If you do and you get a constant stream, 
your network is probably all right.  If you don't stream programs from the internet much, then realize that your network could be going up and down and you will never know it just by doing email.  I had this 
experience for a while when I was on Comcast, but the problem was eventually corrected.  Although IE 8 is an old browser, and although I've had the same problem that you are describing, I don't think that 
having it happen as often as you are experiencing is attributable to IE 8 alond.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:20:29 -0400, I. C. Bray wrote:

>OK,
>First off, XP PRO is a good OS, but it still has it's problems.
>Most of the time it is an IE issue; IE likes to have it's HTML a certain 
>way.
>Since there are only normalizations, and not distinct standards with HTML 
>Authoring, you are likely to continue to have problems.
>I have JAWS 13 on XP  HOME on my LT, and use XP PRO on all of my other 
>machines with NVDA. (Yes, I hate nvda, but it's free!)
>Assside from that, if your fan is accelerating, it is a temperature / 
>processor issue.
>JAWS 14 may not be the *best* for XP PRO.  I cannot speak t this directly... 
>Perhaps someone from FS can comment?

>Sometimes your DNS records can get cross-linked, or your temporary internet 
>files can kludge-up access times.

>Best practices:
>Clean-up your cache, temporary files, and make sure your DNS servers are 
>correct with your ISP.
>Example, with the conversion of INSIGHT to TIME-WARNER in my area, there are 
>many reasons why this simillar behavior can occur.  DNS Records update 
>pretty frequently, but sometimes things don't get cleared out on your 
>machine.

>You should leave your History in tact, but consider clearing out Cache and 
>Temp Files.
>Reboot.
>Try the problematic sites again and see what happens.

>Also, with HEAT of Summer upon us, it is often also that broad-band (cable) 
>head-ends and lines get over-heated.  This causes lower quality signals 
>accross the transmission lines.

>You could be suffering from marginal or borderline signal issues.  Calling 
>your customer service to report intermittant signals is a good idea too.

>Ian  C. Bray.



>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:15 AM
>Subject: [nfbcs] Trouble with IE8


>> For the last 2 days, I've been having problems with IE.  It happens with 
>> any site; one time it hangs, and the next time it's fine, probably. It 
>> seems random, but it's happened several times.
>> I get the "program not responding, end now?" message, followed by the IE 
>> error report screen.  Before it abends, it hangs up for a while, and I 
>> hear the computer fan running like mad, but Jaws won't say anything.
>> I've run a virus scan with MS Security Essentials, and it didn't find 
>> anything.
>> I'm running Jaws 14 and IE8 on Windows XP Pro.
>> Is there any way to find out what's happening when IE hangs?
>> If I reinstall IE8, will it cause a disaster?
>> Does IE9 work?  I remember hearing there were problems with it.
>> TIA.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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